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Equal Opportunity
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

Bend
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Equal
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Nov 07, 2020

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't prejudge.

Equal Opportunity
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Nov 07, 2020

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Nov 07, 2020

I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

Ale
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Nov 07, 2020

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Our
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Nov 07, 2020

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

Happy Things
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Nov 07, 2020

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Happiness
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Nov 07, 2020

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Go Home
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Nov 07, 2020

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Own
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Nov 07, 2020

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

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